Today at least six members of the Scenes of Crime Squad huddled around the blue Mazda pickup allegedly used by the men accused of burning the BSI fields. They were paying particular attention to the right side-view mirror of the vehicle, and while we weren’t allowed to get close, they processed the vehicle for well […]
Just before five this evening Efrain Alpuche managed to secure his bail, and spoke to the media as he exited the Police Station. He maintains his innocence and says he doesn’t understand how anybody could prove that he had anything to do with any burning of fields. Efrain Alpuche, Charged for Arson “Well it’s […]
Who killed the two American nationals in Teakettle Village? It has been a couple days since forty six year old Julian Jones and sixty one year old Paul Signorino were brutally murdered, and there haven’t been any details by the police on any significant lead. It is still very much a painful and raw spot […]
Enrique Pook Junior, who resides in Hattieville, is accused of having sex twice in 2014 with a thirteen year old minor. In October 2014, a month or so after the first allegation surfaced, he was arraigned for Unlawful Sexual Intercourse with the girl whose age was thirteen years. At the time he appeared before the […]
This afternoon, three men and a sixteen year old minor were arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for Drug Trafficking after a bag containing one hundred and forty two grams of weed was found in a car they were travelling in. They have been identified as Calford Perez Junior of Rio Bravo Crescent, Oliver […]
On Monday two men were detained by Police on suspicion of burning canefields owned by ASR in the San Lorenzo area of Orange Walk Town. The detention is politically charged, since one of those men, Efrain Alpuche Jr., is closely linked to PUP politician Ramon Cervantes Jr. It is believed that there is evidence which […]
As we said, the situation is politically charged because of the personalities involved, and also because when Alpuche Junior was detained he was driving a vehicle which belongs to Cervantes. Today Cervantes claimed that his political opponents are trying to tie him to the matter, while he maintains that he condemns in no uncertain terms […]
The double murder of the two American nationals in Teakettle was at the top of our newscast on Monday night. The brutal killing of the two men has left the village in shock and as so far no one has been detained. In a police report today, the post mortem results show that sixty one […]
A trio of Belizean fugitives wanted for individual crimes, including murder, has been extradited by Mexican authorities. The handing over took place on Saturday morning at the Belize/Mexico Border where thirty-year-old Errol Haynes, twenty-five-year-old Anthony Barrow and thirty-four-year-old Jorge Vidal were formally surrendered to local authorities. Haynes was being sought for possession of a prohibited […]
T he GST continues to penalize businesses that have not been paying their taxes. Well known talk show host and businessman Darrell Carter was spared jail time after he picked up his seventh conviction for Non-Filing this afternoon. Initially, he pleaded not guilty to two counts of non-filing for the months of July and August […]
Burglars cleaned out a woman’s apartment taking all her household items while she was away. But quick response by the police, led to the recovery of two od the stolen items and her next door neighbour, who is a Bowen an Bowen Delivery Supervisor, has been arrested. Thirty two year old Zacceheus Martinez, however, claims […]
Early on Friday morning, the body of a watchman was found at his workplace in Ladyville, Belize District. He had been strangled to death but neither family members nor the police had a motive. Kenroy Arnold, also known as Bouncer, was at a wake for Selvin Encalada on Saturday night but unknown to him three […]
The peace and quiet of Teakettle Village was shattered by the news of a double murder. Two American nationals were killed in what seems a senseless act of violence. A Valley of Peace retiree who was visiting his friend was shot and the Teakettle resident was hacked to death. From all appearances, it has the […]
The other murder victim is a Camalote resident who was killed after a lone-gunman fired several bullets at the vehicle she was travelling in around five thirty on Sunday evening. Rosalie Galvez, her common-law husband and her two sons were heading home after a family outing in More Tomorrow. Galvez never made it home. Today […]
And one more story on the weekend’s gun violence. A vehicle carrying several men returning to Monkey River Village on Sunday, after an evening of socializing at a football game in Independence, was assaulted by an unknown gunman as it traveled along the deserted road late at night. Several occupants of the pickup truck received […]
When we closed our newscast on Friday, a jury was still deliberating in the murder trial of Lusby Martinez who was facing charges for the grenade attack in which fourteen year old Rudolph Flowers was killed. Just before eight, the jury concluded its deliberations finding Martinez not guilty of murder after spending years behind bars […]
A young boy under the age of sixteen years claims that he was sexually molested back in December 2014 by a man well known to him and his family. Today, thirty-three year old Patrick Swasey was arraigned and charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature upon the minor who, it is alleged, he kissed […]
Also up north two men are in custody tonight because police suspect they burned cane fields belonging to American Sugar Refinery, and fired at ASR Security personnel who caught them doing it. According to reports at around three this afternoon, security guards at the ASR sugar cane fields in San Lorenzo discovered the men setting […]
The murder stats went up by one today. Sixty-eight year old Selvyn Encalada, a resident of Perez Road, Ladyville, was found dead this morning inside a compound where he worked as a security officer. The lifeless body of the elderly watchman was discovered with a rope fastened around his neck, suggesting that he may have […]
On May thirteenth Minister of National Security John Saldivar criticized the media for sensationalizing murders in the country. He seemed to feel that instead we should be heaping praises on his Ministry, since under his watch, major crimes have gone down thirty percent. It’s an almost unbelievable statistic, since murders, that most major of crimes, […]
Was an attempt made on the life of Alfred Sattler, C.E.O. at the Benque Free Zone? On Thursday morning around eight thirty, Sattler was driving his personal vehicle heading to the Belize Western Boarder when, about a quarter mile before his destination, a shot was fired at his vehicle. Upon hearing a blast, Sattler realized […]
A father accompanied by his fourteen year old daughter and a social worker reported that on October twenty-eight, 2014 around one-thirty PM and on May third, 2015 while at her residence “Nuru” Ellis had sexual intercourse with her. A medical examination was conducted on the child certifying that she is carnally known. Police have since […]
Judge Adolph Lucas summed up today the case of accused, Lusby Martinez who is on trial for the December twenty-eighth, 2009 grenade murder of Rudolph Flowers following a grenade attack in the Kraal Road area of Belize City. After summing up, a jury stepped into the deliberating room noon to decide on the fate […]
An ex-police officer and his girlfriend were dragged to court today to answer to a single charge of drug trafficking after the GSU conducted a search at their home. In a Range Rover parked in front of their house, police found several bags of weed containing seven hundred and twelve grams. This morning, the cop, […]
Three Honduran fishermen caught fishing illegally within a protected area in the south were convicted today in the Independence Magistrate Court. They are Ismael Dubon Banagas, Salvador Caballero Reyes and Luis Alfonso Dubon Banagas. The trio did not possess a valid fisherman license or boat license and were found to be illegal in Belize. On […]
